Sheep hurdles as partitions?

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Hi all,

Possibly a silly question but does anyone use sheep hurdles with their horses? Mine are in a barn but I need to create a temporary stable for one of them. She currently has partitions made of pallets but she chews them & it looks really tatty.

Would sheep hurdles work if I lined with chicken wire to stop her putting her feet through? Or if anyone has any other cheap suggestions please feel free to share!

Thank you!

D. x
 
I had to google what they were...! But I don't see why not if the horse is relatively sane particularly if you said you were going to put chicken wire in to stop her putting her feet through?
 
They’re used frequently with miniatures but I’d not be using them for large horses as they simply won’t have the strength. You’d be better building a proper wall with railway sleepers or something.
 
I use them with miniatures, sheep and goats but sheep hurdles are not very high. I have a jacob sheep who can jump a sheep hurdle with no problem, they are only about 3' high

I wouldn't think they would be very safe with horses and putting them up in a straight line is a recipe for disaster
 
I use them for show pens and separating stalls for camping over but I still don’t think I’d use them totally ‘unsupervised’
 
I use alpaca hurdles for temporary grazing pens/lunge pen/hardstanding pen (with heras feet) and for a dog pen but would never have the ponies in there unsupervised (I have one set at 6ft x 4ft and one 8ft x 4 ft). I looked at cattle gates but they are very heavy. they might be better for something more permanent though with boarding attached to it to stop feet going through-they would need the fixtures properly attaching to the walls though.
 
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Could you go across a corner and use electric tape with the insulators screwed into the barn sides and a good charge running through it. Depends how sane everything is but I definitely wouldnt use sheep hurdles as they really arent very high or strong.
 
I wouldn't use sheep hurdles, they're not high enough or solid enough IMO.

If you have the space I have seen someone make a stable out of round bales :D Saves filling haynets I suppose!
 
I use them to keep big horses out and let minis take shelter, but I would not use them to keep a big horse in. Too low, too flimsy. Even with minis, I brace one at right angles every few, and tie them together as well as securing firmly at each end of a run of them.
 
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